Nomination For a Hero Badge

It’s good to see that cops in some countries still hold with old school cop ways. I’ve always wondered what would have happened had cameras been placed in patrol cars in the 1970’s. I figure Porn Hub couldn’t have kept up with the volume of submissions.

Irish cop reinstated after being fired for patrol car romp with porn star, filmed and submitted to Porn Hub.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/3406068/cop-filmed-romping-with-porn-star-keeps-job-ireland/?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly

This brings to mind the time a future office pogue made “legend in his own time” status. The police department had recently moved into a secure building. After hours, the building was locked down. Access was controlled by the dispatcher. In order to enter the building. The only way in was to be “buzzed in” by the dispatcher.

It was sometime after two in the morning. The city was asleep. The dispatcher and her patrol officer boyfriend were about to find out there was more than one way into the building. According to legend, the dispatcher was sprawled on the dispatch console, skirt up, panties down and officer’s fingers were buried up to the second knuckle. Suddenly, the patrol commander stuck his head in the doorway to the dispatch office as he strolled past.

The three achieved immortality when the commander uttered those famous words, “When you get done here see me in my office.” He never broke stride. Officer and dispatcher each caught a three day suspension. There was no appeal filed. Both were damn glad to take the days.

Police administrations can be their own worst enemies. In another incident the Superintendent, read Colonel, or HMWIC, of the Louisiana State Police found an 8 x 10 glossy photo in his interdepartmental mail. The picture showed a Louisiana State Trooper leaning against his patrol car in full uniform. He was flipping the bird at the camera and by extension the Colonel. The trooper’s identity was obscured by a full head gorilla mask. The trooper also had the foresight to be leaning against the patrol car to obscure the vehicle number.

The Colonel was outraged. The photo could be taken as an indication that he wasn’t held in universal esteem by the rank and file. He ordered an immediate investigation. Internal affairs put their best investigators on it. The photo was sent to the crime lab. Ah! they thought if we blow the photo up enough we can read his name tag or badge number. The gorilla in the guerilla action anticipated that tact. The upraised bird flipping arm obscured the badge number. Still there was the name tag. They blew the picture up, the letters came into focus. Yes, they were readable. The name tag said, “FUCK YOU” The investigators checked, but it was just as they suspected. There was nobody on the Louisiana State Police by that name.

I don’t have a problem with a police administration investigating threats to public integrity. My issue is when the administration diverts those resources to bolster injured pride. If a trooper wearing a gorilla mask flips off the Colonel in a photo and sends the photo in a plain brown wrapper to the Colonel, is it a public affront?